Religious and Tribal Organizations Around the Country are Using TownVOTE

Tribal Council Voting Chamber

Whether it be Seventh Day Adventists, the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, or the Snoqualmie Indian tribe, religious and tribal organizations across the country are meeting to elect officials and make important decisions for the future. That’s why religious and tribal groups of all sizes have been making the switch to Meridia’s TownVOTE electronic voting system, which proved to be the perfect alternative to the time-consuming process of counting votes manually.

House Committee on Natural Resources Switches to TownVOTE Electronic Voting System

House Committee on Natural Resources Hearing Room

Since 2018, we’ve partnered with the House Committee on Natural Resources, who utilizes TownVOTE and clickers to record the votes at their Markup Meetings. After previously using a lengthy voting process that involved individually recording the votes of each house member, the electronic voting allowed the committee to significantly cut down on the time for each vote while instantly confirming their results with visual vote confirmation.

Offline, Short-Range, RF Electronic Voting Systems

Electronic Voting Security

As offline, short-range RF voting systems are not vulnerable from internet-based attacks or distance attacks they are only susceptible to the bad actors who are within a short range of your voting event.

7th Day Adventists Across the Country are Using TownVOTE Electronic Voting System

7th Day Adventists Conference Electronic Voting System

Every five years, various 7th Day Adventist conferences meet to discuss and deliberate issues, bylaw changes, and more. Traditionally, all voting during these events was handled by pen-and-paper ballots and manual vote-counting. While this process allowed the conferences to conduct a secret ballot, the process was often stressful, tedious, and time-consuming.

NAACP Use Electronic Voting For the First Time During their 113th National Convention

NAACP Convention 2022 Electronic Voting

Meridia was called on by the NAACP to provide an electronic voting system for 3,500 delegates at their July 14-20th 2022 Annual Convention in Atlantic City, NJ. This year, in their first in-person meeting since 2019, for the first time in their 113-year history, NAACP chose to move away from voice and paper voting.

Churches of God Eastern Regional Conference Streamline their April Meeting With Electronic Voting

Churches of God Conference Sessions Banner

The Churches of God Eastern Regional Conference had used paper ballots for many years before switching to Meridia’s TownVOTE electronic voting system in April 2022. During this meeting, the conference used electronic voting for the first time to vote on new council members, as well as a large vote for a delegation of people they plan to send to their national conference.

Lutheran Women’s Missionary League Successfully Implements TownVOTE Software and Keypads During Their June 11th Meeting

Religious Background

The democratic process can be found in organizations large and small, and nowhere is this more true than the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, where the organization conducted two types of votes to elect their president and select grant funding with the help of TownVOTE electronic voting software and keypads.

Yale Teams Up With Meridia for CELI Events

Jeffery Sonnenfeld Yale

Yale University’s CELI summit started working with Meridia in 2020 when they purchased 300 keypads for use in their quarterly meetings. Since then, we’ve created custom-filtered Powerpoint slides that audience members can interact and vote on, as well as elegant, custom Yale-themed membrane for the keypads.

Sterling’s Annual Town Meeting Showcases the Flexibility of EZ-VOTE

Sterling Massachusetts Town Hall

The town of Sterling, MA used Meridia’s voting keypads and software during the Pandemic in 2020, and 2021 to hold a massive outdoor meeting at their local airport. Now their 2022 town meeting brought them back indoors, proving the flexibility and speed of the EZ-VOTE electronic voting system and keypads.

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